 | Edward Currier - 1841 - 474 pages
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
 | United States. President - 1842 - 794 pages
...patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary... | |
 | M. Sears - 1842 - 586 pages
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1843 - 534 pages
...patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. 252 ments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary... | |
 | Samuel Farmer Wilson - 1843 - 452 pages
...patronising infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, il is unnecessary, and would be unwise, to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1844 - 324 pages
...patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best...alliances for extraordinary emergencies. " Harmony and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty ia always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let...always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | Rhode Island - 1844 - 612 pages
...maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. 1 repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
 | M. Sears - 1844 - 596 pages
...prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? policy. I repeat, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their...always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.... | |
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It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidel-ity to existing engagements. 
